Nobel commentary: peace prize welcome recognition for unloved EU

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The Nobel prize award to the European Union offers a welcome boost for an
entity whose historic, six-decade mission to ensure peace and prosperty has
been badly undermined by the crisis that has afflicted the single currency
since 2008. Not since pan-EU polling started two decades ago, has the
former European Community been so unloved by its citizens.

In awarding the prize, the Nobel committee is recognising the long and
extraordinary success of the scheme that was launched in embryo in 1951 by
Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, two French visionaries, to bring France,
Germany and other former wartime enemies